Arachnophobia filter...seriously

Yes.

Because you’re letting the existence of an accommodation for someone else that affects you in precisely zero ways melt your chill over the pRiNcIpLe of it. It’s like getting cranky that your neighbor has subtitles on when he watches TV because sometimes he wants to be able to eat popcorn but still hear muttered dialogue instead of just turning up his volume super loud and getting used to it like a man.

Getting bothered to the point of lashing out at people over something that literally only affects you as much as you let it is, I think we can all agree, snowflake behavior, if the requirements for things that exist even peripherally in your environment are so specific that they must apply to everyone.

If you think there should be some way to put in an accommodation for fear of heights, though, feel free to make a suggestion! Maybe they’ll do something about it if enough people agree.

If I had to guess, I’d say that the one quest designer who put it in is probably arachnaphobic or has friends or family who are so it mattered to them enough to do something about it on their own time.

And before the “WELL WHERE DOES IT STOP??” rabble-rabbling starts up again, maybe someone says “I don’t like seeing female models/the color green/humans in the game, I’m afraid of them,” what they do then, is they go, “…yeah sorry you feel that way. We don’t have any plans on the horizon to change that.”

And then the people go, “That’s not FAIR, you changed the SPIDERS?!?”

And they go, “Yeah, we did. But we don’t have plans to change that. Sorry.”

Theeeeee end.

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